Hizbullah Minister Jabaq in Visit to Kuwait
Health Minister Jamil Jabaq arrived Tuesday in Kuwait to take part in the 21st edition of the Arab Healthcare Development Conference, Lebanon's National News Agency reported.
The minister was welcomed at the airport by a delegation from the Kuwait health ministry and Lebanese consul in Kuwait Nisrine Bou Karroum.
Jabaq is scheduled to meet with Lebanese expats at the embassy's headquarters in the evening.
The minister, who was named by Hizbullah for the new government, is not a member of the party but is believed to be close to its chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and was his personal physician at one point.
In August 2017, Kuwaiti authorities said they arrested 12 convicted members of a "terrorist cell" with alleged “ties to Iran and Hizbullah.”
The supreme court in Sunni-ruled Kuwait, which has a sizable Shiite minority, had earlier overturned an acquittal by an appeals court and convicted 21 Shiites of forming a "terrorist cell with ties to Iran and Hizbullah.”
The cell had planned to launch attacks across the Gulf state, according to the court verdict.
Kuwait later presented a formal protest letter to Lebanon over Hizbullah's alleged training of the so-called "Abdali Cell".
Source: Naharnet
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